George E. Bodgen
Senior Counsel for Trade
gbogden@continentalstrategy.com
(202) 642-5989
Before joining Continental Strategy, Dr. Bogden clerked at the U.S. Court of International Trade and practiced at the Washington, DC offices of two globally-recognized law firms, where he advised on antidumping and countervailing duty investigations, export controls, sanctions, customs compliance, international arbitration, and other complex commercial matters. A writer and commentator, his analysis has appeared in outlets such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, War on the Rocks, Lawfare, The Hill, and The National Interest.
Dr. Bogden is a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a David Rockefeller Fellow of the Trilateral Commission. He also maintains affiliations with the Bretton Woods Committee, Chatham House, and the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
Dr. George E. Bogden is Senior Counsel for Trade at Continental Strategy, specializing in cross-border policy. He previously served as Executive Director of the Office of Trade Relations at U.S. Customs and Border Protection, where he was the agency’s primary liaison to the international trade community.
ACCOLADES
Tony Blankley Fellow for Public Policy and American Exceptionalism, Steamboat Institute
Visiting Fellow, Eccles Center, British Library
New Security Leader, Warsaw Security Forum
Senior Fellow, Budapest Fellowship Program, Hungary Foundation
Helmut Schmidt Fellow, German Marshall Fund of the United States (Berlin)
American Delegate, American Council on Germany Young Leaders Program and British-American Project
Krauthammer Fellow, Tikvah Fund
Strategy & Policy Fellow, Smith Richardson Foundation
George F. Kennan Fellow, Wilson Center’s Kennan Institute
Olin‑Searle‑Smith‑Darling Fellow, Columbia Law School
First Associate Director, Center for the Future of Liberal Society, Hudson Institute
Fulbright Public Policy Fellow, Kosovo
Brussels Forum Young Writers Award and RUSI’s Trench Gascoigne Essay Contest
EDUCATION
New York University School of Law, J.D. (Editor‑in‑Chief, Journal of Law & Liberty; Dean’s Award Scholar)
University of Oxford, M.Phil., D.Phil. in International Relations (Clarendon Scholar)
Yale University, B.A. in Political Science (Honors)

